Entrepreneurship incubator program for refugees
Science- and tech-based incubator ACE and entrepreneurship school Team Academy are teaming up with entrepreneurs with a refugee background that have joined Refugees Forward (RF). As a first project, the three partners aim to run a 4-month intensive incubation program starting the 9th of April for 15 newcomers at ACE’s Startup Village at Amsterdam Science […]
The One Minute Reflectioner by a teamcoach
Are we ever smart enough to know how we learn? A customer who is dissatisfied and does not want to pay for a 24-hour challenge. Fellow students who put their heels in the sand. Customers who do not call back. Coming to the conclusion after 2 weeks that you have not earned anything yet. A […]
We are a very diverse first-year team
My name is Ellora Wardrop, I am a first year student here at Team Academy from Salt Lake City, Utah. This past week nearly fifty other students and I, both from TA Amsterdam and TA Romania, were paired up to begin our Impact week. We were divided into a number of teams and given a […]
Time to reflect on the 24-hour challenge of L&D Support
At least two times a year we invite an external company to challenge our students. The company will bring a real business case and give the students 24 hours to come up with the most creative but feasible solution. This time we invited L&D Support, an Amsterdam based business specialized in talent insights. They asked […]
Meet Tim, he is working on a drone company
Considering this is not your traditional university approach, why did you choose Team Academy? “Very good question, actually…Before I joined Team Academy, I was studying at the Hotel Management School of Maastricht. The study we did there was already different from a normal school, a more practical approach. Of course they focused on hospitality and […]
How we experienced our learning journey in San Francisco
San Francisco was the perfect combination of business, sunshine and teamwork. If we weren’t at company visits with leading start-ups in Silicon Valley, we were enjoying the sun in a park overlooking the busy city, and if we weren’t doing either, well then we were cycling the Golden Gate bridge. I think the saying goes, […]
We organized our second impactfull event, and this is what happened
2 weeks ago we had our second Impact event at Team Academy Amsterdam, maybe to refresh your mind; Impact is a youth driven social enterprise, ran by students of Team Academy. We believe that the world needs more people who come together to imagine, design, and implement bold solutions to today’s most pressing social, environmental […]
I designed one of the 25 best looking books of 2016
My name is Hidde van Bergen. I am a 3rd year student at Team Academy Netherlands. I started a graphical design agency two years ago which is called Van Bergen Projects. The service I am providing is creating identities for companies and other visual elements for businesses. Examples are: logos, websites, brochures, business cards and posters. […]
What I learned by organizing an international conference
As part of learning by doing during my degree at Team Academy Amsterdam, we are constantly encouraged to break through our barriers and tackle our challenges head on. This year I took on a project to work in collaboration with other Team Academies around Europe and organize a conference in the chosen location being Budapest, […]
5 reasons why you’d love or hate studying entrepreneurship at Team Academy in Amsterdam
At Team Academy we believe that setting up your own company is the best way to learn how to do business. That’s why we choose to encourage our students to start businesses, instead of just lecturing them about businesses. This new way of learning, however, is not for everybody. Here are 5 reasons why you […]